Pacific Ocean Marketplace

终于去到了传说中的太平洋超市，有所谓的Chinese stuff. 果然是看着9眼熟，
很多东西一眼望过去就知道是啥玩意，而且很多都有中文。
确实方便不少。米，醋，酒，一应俱全。连年糕，面，泡面都有，虽然和国内有些差别。

再过几天就是这边的新年，看看会有些啥玩意，似乎不像农历新年热闹得很，
这里似乎很平静，或许是没去市区逛逛。

Quiet

这个地方很安静，除了冰箱的一点点噪音和如果开着的空调。没有多余的人和动物。
昨天晚12点多睡，一觉睡到7点，真爽。这样的状态似乎已然消逝很久。
昨天和安仔聊天，说US并没有给太多的惊喜，其实就是这样。
工作有点点忙，而且有不是很顺畅；语言还得下功夫；出去购物得有车，自己又不会开；
去购物的时候很多都不认识，不认识是什么牌子，不认识是什么东西；
而通常是集体出动，就跟着走走看看，稍微了解了解。
不过后来想了想，应该是看店面能看出这个牌子的档次，比如Calvin Klein的样子就比很多店装修的要好，
所以东西卖的也贵，名气应该不小。不过听说LV还是个太高档次的属于我们无法承受的店，所以去的那两个地方都没有。

不过那帮人挑的东西大概都还是很值得买的，比起国内要便宜好些，牌子都是数得上。
一瓶Amarni 70$, 据说比国内便宜好些。香水和衣服是买的比较多的，可能正赶上还在打折的时间。
怪不得black Friday的时候要去血拼，原来几百的东西打到几十块，还不赶紧买。

Cheery Creek & Castle Rock

It's weekend. So it's shopping day as some guys will go back to China soon.
We started to Cheery Creek first which has lots of cosmetics, perfume, clothing, electronic, etc..
We saw Clinique, Lascome, Channel and many brands we didn't know ever.
There's a Apple store as well and we tested i Phone. How cool it is! 8G memory, 399$ without tax.
The only disappointed thing is I can't use it in China as well as in US.

My partners bought something then we went to Castle Rock. It's a shopping place. A lot of clothing stores.
I only know several brands here. Many products are on sale and I got one item at Timberland.

Apparently I need to know more about those two place by search on internet in case I will not lost when going next time.

WalMart

We rended several cars for shopping by COB.
First is the BestBuy. It's not very big but do have many productions, software, CD/DVD, computer accessorizes. And seems doesn't have much deals.
Then went to Walmart nearby. It's huge. Lots of stuff and most of them I can't identify what they are as well as what they are used for.
Since we didn't have enough time, I just asked for partners to give me suggestions what I should buy for the coming a week.

Radio in Denver

I can receive more than 20 radio channels in Denver.
But my iRiver T10 could only save 20 channels.Sound bad!.
Any stuff can deal with this tough thing?
Save all channels then I can select one I like easily.

The first day

It's snow day here.
We walked for about 10 Minutes to take bus to client office and learned the
environment.
Everywhere is covered by snow. The view outside is like what we saw in
some old US films.
And the bus is definitely more comfortable than that in Hangzhou as
well as it's bigger.

About half of ten o'clock, Billy brought our new arrivals to
our company office. It's
smaller than the GDC office and nothing better than GDC I think. Lots
of people are not here since now it's the holiday season and most of
are on vocation.

It took us more than 15 Min. to a market to buy something. And it's
terrible walking in the snow.
The market is not very big but it has almost all what we want. And
what can I say, all the thing was labeled in English and I'm lost most
of the time.
And the 16th ST. is the *main line* here. Many stores at this street.
Back to office around 2PM and checking the mail and going back to
hotel after 1 hour because the snow will be worse later.

One thing I got strong feeling is the English skills is a big problem
and also a big challenge if I want to live here comfortable.

Arrival in US

1一个半小时的火车，1个小时机场大巴，近11点才到达浦东机场
下午1点40的飞机，经过日本上空(听说的)，近12小时达到San Francisco.
San Francisco 就在西海岸，飞机跨过海岸线后，就开始准备着陆了。
地上的汽车小的像是自行车队；看到了朔长的金门大桥，只是耳朵痛得没来得急拍照，
8:45AM进机场，取行李，又安检，两瓶老干妈，一瓶咸菜，一瓶豆腐乳都扣押扔掉，NND...
这便算是安全进入美国境内了。时间大致9:30AM.
再在机场等1个小时，转机到Denver。这趟飞机作的实在舒服，一上飞机就开始睡，
连起飞都没不知道，就在降落的时候醒来了。Local time 2:45PM the plane landed in Denver.
Denver似乎下了大雪，外面除了公路上到处是积雪，天气还是很晴朗，温度零下8度。
等了半个多小时接送的车才到，直接送往旅馆，安排房间，单人房，有电视，网络，还算不错。
拆包，旅途结束。

Opensource Cache/Caching Solutions in Java

Details: http://entips.sharmavishal.com/2007/10/open-source-cachecaching-solutions-in.html

Bamboo DHT
cache4j
FreePastry
EHCache
Java Caching System (JCS)
JBoss Cache
JCache
Jofti
OceanStore
Open Terracotta
OSCache
ShiftOne
SwarmCache
WhirlyCache

Webware Top 10 website design 2007

http://cssherald.com/webware-top-10-website-design-2007/

Removing duplicate whitespace using regular expression

Think about how to implement this before clicking the link below...

http://www.memezilla.com/2007/12/14/removing-duplicate-whitespace-using-regular-expression-2

What's new in Groovy 1.5

http://www.infoq.com/articles/groovy-1.5-new

A couple of things I found are pretty cool.

• Annotation. Aha... getters and setters are gone! Actually that means we don't auto-generate ourselves in IDE. And code becomes naturally concise and readable.
• Elvis operator. Compare piece of code below...

String name = "Guillaume";
String displayName = name != null ? name :  "Unknown";

String name = "Guillaume"
String displayName = name ?: "Unknown"

Hooters, Hangzhou

Michael asked for a party in the hooters since he's going back to US a couple weeks later.
We really enjoyed ourselves I think, the beer, the chicken wings and of course hot girls.
Except the cost is expensive.
One guy here told that she's preparing GRE and ToFEL. In another words she's planning to study in US.
Sounds good. And it made me think that I had this plan before. But it's merely a plan in mind till now.....
And Mike also said if people can get scholarship, the cost will be much lower.
And probably international students could get scholarship.

I definitely felt I got far more thing to do in improving English skills.
Because it's not easy to express myself sometime and I could only understand a part of what they're talking about.
And the language skill is the basic thing for making foreign friends.
So, what the plan should be?

Top Ten Obscure but Useful Java Open Source Projects - Circa 2007

      
1. SymmetricDS
2. Bedework
3. Gadget
4. Carbonado
5. Nux
6. Cleversafe
7. XXL
8. UIMA
9. Queplix
10. ZK

More information's here.

Color labels in GMail

I supported it's a cool new feature!

Today I open GMail and found that a green box next to every label.
You can select a color for each label by clicking that box.

Then turn back to your inbox ...

Multiple Firefox profile in single machine

Start Firefox ProfileManager from command line or windows->run
Firefox.exe --profilemanager

By using the profile manager, we can configure multiple profiles.

Then start Firefox with specific profile by adding appropriate parameter to properties of each shortcut.

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 1\firefox.exe" -P FF3-Beta1

TIPS: It seems the parameter P is case sensitive.

Here is the details.